UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A protein can be used to recover and purify radioactive metals such as actinium that could be beneficial for next-generation drugs used in cancer therapies and medical imaging, ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Researchers grew crystals containing actinium and illuminated them with X-rays to learn how the radioactive metal binds with other elements. That information could help design better cancer treatments ...

This story was a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and the Belleville News-Democrat. Along the border of Venice and Madison in the metro-east, a 1.4 million-square-foot factory and former ...

Whether its lead from old buildings, arsenic from contaminated food or strontium fallout from a nuclear explosion, heavy metals that enter the body pose a serious health threat. With chemical ...

Bacteria can use certain radioactive elements to sustain their metabolism. A team led by LMU chemist Lena Daumann has demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can use certain radioactive elements ...

Environmentalists urged the Bush administration Thursday not to lift a Clinton-era ban on recycling scrap metals from Department of Energy nuclear facilities. They say allowing the metals to be ...

The analysis concluded that the decay heat from these radioactive elements could support the life activities of more than ...

This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, shows labels for Kroger Mercado Cooked Medium Peeled Tail-Off Shrimp recalled by AquaStar USA ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...

Contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia may be the source of radioactive material that led to massive recalls of imported frozen shrimp, international nuclear safety officials say, as ...